Music: An Art and a Language
combination of chords (generally the tonic, dominant and sub- dominant) which indicates that some objective, either tempo- rary ...
[Music: TCHAIKOWSKY:5th Symphony] This last cadence gives an effect of dramatic surprise—certainly an exclamation of great force ...
[Footnote 57: Another interesting eight-measure sentence may be found at the beginning of the slow movement of Beethoven’s Eight ...
Chapter 7 MINUETTO OF BEETHOVEN’S FIRST SONATA.[58] [Footnote 58: Lack of space will prevent hereafter the citation in actual no ...
tence with an extended cadence may be found at the beginning of the first movement of the Third Beethoven Sonata.] The last type ...
Chapter 8 FIRST SENTENCE OF THE FIRST MOVEMENT OF THE TWELFTH SONATA. No difficulty will be found in following the cadences and ...
omission of certain measures or by the overlapping of phrases. The simplest and most common means of enlarging a sentence is by ...
[Music: SCHUBERT:Sonata in E[flat] major] [Music: BRAHMS:Ballade in G minor] As everyone is familiar with the latter composition ...
When a measure is systematically omitted from the normal structure of the 8 measure sentence we have “seven-bar rhythm”; of whic ...
[Music] The following theme from Tchaikowsky’s Quartet in F major, notwithstanding the time signature, certainly gives the effec ...
Chapter 9 CHAPTER V THE TWO-PART AND THREE-PART FORMS Now that a clear insight has been gained into the formation of the normal ...
ciples of balanced phrases, of contrasted keys and of periodic themes, instrumental music gradually worked out a structure of it ...
literally(with a double bar and sign of repeat); later, as com- posers gained freedom, with considerable amplification. Each hal ...
[Footnote 66: As an illustration of this tendency see the Scherzo of Beethoven’s Second Sonata, the second part of which has a n ...
Chapter 10 CHAPTER VI THE CLASSICAL AND THE MODERN SUITE No sooner had the Two-and Three-part forms become accepted as definite ...
form and in those of a more abstract type there is a sparkling fancy and an adjustment of the thought to his instrument, which w ...
Chapter 11 LIST OF DANCES _______________________________________________________________________________ NAME $|$ ORIGIN $|$ ME ...
[Music] or [Music] in which it is evident that there is a strong accent on the weak beats; and the prevalence of feminine ending ...
The Minuet is of particular interest, not alone because of the many beautiful examples of its use but because it is the only dan ...
No. 33) is noteworthy for its daring use of the dissonant ele- ment and for its free modulations. Of the counterparts of the gig ...
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